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18-600: The majority of these manuscripts were collected between 1643 and 1653, by Père Athanase the Rhetor, who bought them for Pierre Séguier (1588–1672), chancellor of France from 1635. Athanase bought the manuscripts in Cyprus , Constantinople , Mount Athos , and in other territories bordering the northern and western Aegean . The collection contains almost 400 manuscripts. Athanase collected more than 300 manuscripts (probably 358) personally. After Séguier's death, all this collection

36-624: A Benedictine of the Congregation of St Maur , to prepare a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts. with commentaries. This work was published in folio 1715, as Bibliotheca Coisliniana, olim Segueriana... . The greater part of the printed books were destroyed by fire, in the abbey of St Germain-des-Prés , in 1794. Séguier is a minor character in The Three Musketeers . [REDACTED]   This article incorporates text from

54-472: A publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Séguier, Pierre ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 583–584. Fran%C3%A7ois Auguste de Thou François-Auguste de Thou (24 August 1604 - 12 September 1642) was a French magistrate. He was born in Paris, the eldest son of Jacques-Auguste de Thou . In 1617, with

72-698: The Académie française , which from that time until his death held its sessions in his house. His library was one of the most valuable of his time, only second, perhaps, to the royal collection. It contained no less than 4000 manuscripts in various languages, the most important section of them being the Greek manuscripts. A catalogue was drawn up in Latin and in French (1685–1686) by the duc de Coislin. The chancellor's great-grandson, Henri Charles du Cambout de Coislin , bishop of Metz , commissioned Bernard de Montfaucon ,

90-703: The best witnesses of the Byzantine text-type , and the basis for The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2007). The collection also includes further witnesses to the text of the New Testament , as well as to the Septuagint , Josephus , and other ancient, and medieval authors. Pierre S%C3%A9guier Pierre Séguier ( French: [pjɛʁ seɡje] ; 28 May 1588 – 28 January 1672)

108-512: The chancellor saved her by warning her of the projected inquisition. In 1639 Seguier was sent to punish the Normans for the insurrection of the Nu-Pieds , the military chief of the expedition, Gassion, being placed under his orders. He put down pillage with a strong hand, and was sufficiently disinterested to refuse a gift of confiscated Norman lands. He was the submissive tool of Richelieu in

126-543: The collection was burned in 1793, and in 1795 Fonds Coislin was deposited in the National Library of France , where it has been held until the present day. A few manuscripts, bought by Russians during the time of Catherine II , now are held at Saint Petersburg (s.v. Dubrowski). One of the best known manuscripts of the collection is the fragmentary uncial Codex Coislinianus . The collection also includes Minuscule 35 (Coislin 199), now considered to be one of

144-694: The death of his father, he inherited the office of Master of the Bookstore. Nicolas Rigault , guard of the Library of the King, assumed that office with his arrest. He was a councillor to the parliament of Paris in 1626 and a conseiller d'État shortly afterwards. From 1632 to 1635, he was steward of Burgundy and steward of the armies with Cardinal Louis de Nogaret of Valletta. He was unwise enough to link himself to Cardinal Richelieu 's enemies. His misguided mediation between Anne of Austria and Marie de Rohan

162-461: The duke of Sully. He was recalled in April 1651, but six months later, on the king's attaining his majority, Séguier was again disgraced, and the seals were given to President Mathieu Molé , who held them with a short interval till his death in 1656, when they were returned to Séguier. Séguier lived for some time in extreme retirement in Paris, devoting himself to the affairs of the academy. When Paris

180-409: The head of a commission called to simplify the police organization, especially that of Paris; and the consequent ordinances of 1667 and 1670 for the better administration of justice were drawn up by him. Séguier died at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1672. Séguier was a man of great learning, and throughout his life a patron of literature. In December 1642 he succeeded Richelieu as official "protector" of

198-457: The prosecutions of Cinq-Mars and François Auguste de Thou in 1642. His authority survived the changes following on the successive deaths of Richelieu and Louis XIII , and he was the faithful servant of Anne of Austria and of Mazarin . His resolute attitude towards the parlement of Paris made the chancellor one of the chief objects of the hatred of the Frondeurs. On 25 August 1648, Séguier

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216-481: The seals under Richelieu , he proceeded to bully and humiliate the parlement in his turn. He became allied with the cardinal's family by the marriage of his daughter Marie with Richelieu's nephew, Pierre César du Cambout, marquis de Coislin, and in December 1635 he became chancellor of France. In 1637 Séguier was sent to examine the papers of the queen, Anne of Austria , at Val-de-Grâce . According to Anquetil ,

234-511: Was a French statesman who was the chancellor of France from 1635. Séguier was born in Paris to a prominent legal family originating in Quercy . His grandfather, Pierre Séguier (1504–1580), was président à mortier in the parliament of Paris from 1554 to 1576, and the chancellor's father, Jean Séguier, a seigneur d'Autry , was civil lieutenant of Paris at the time of his death in 1596. Pierre

252-443: Was brought up by his uncle, Antoine Séguier, president and mortier in the parlement, and became master of requests in 1620. From 1621 to 1624 he was intendant of Guyenne, where he became closely allied with the duc d'Épernon . In 1624 he succeeded to his uncle's charge in the parlement, which he filled for nine years. In this capacity he showed great independence with regard to the royal authority; but when in 1633 he became keeper of

270-539: Was inherited by his grandson, Henri-Charles de Coislin (1664–1732), bishop of Metz . He gave it to the Benedictine monks of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris . The first catalogue of this collection, the Coislin catalogue, was made in 1715, in which 42 manuscripts were described ( Bernard de Montfaucon , Bibliotheca Coisliniana olim Segueriana , Paris: Ludovicus Guerin & Carolus Robustel, 1715). A large part of

288-459: Was occupied by the princes in 1652, he was for a short time a member of their council, but he joined the king at Pontoise in August, and became president of the royal council. After Mazarin's death in 1661 Séguier retained but a shadow of his former authority. He showed a great violence in his conduct of the case against Fouquet , voting for the death of the prisoner. In 1666 Séguier was placed at

306-502: Was pardoned, but he fell in the conspiracy between Spain and Cinq-Mars , a favorite of king Louis XIII . For not revealing what he knew of the conspiracy, his silence was taken as proof of guilt and he was beheaded at Lyon on the same day as Cinq-Mars on Richelieu's orders. He was a manuscript collector; his collection included the Greek minuscule manuscript known as Minuscule 601 (Gregory-Åland). A famous 19th century historical painting by Paul Delaroche shows Cardinal Richelieu in

324-514: Was sent to the parlement to regulate its proceedings. On the way he was assailed by rioters on the Pont-Neuf , and sought refuge in the house of Louis Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes. In the course of the concessions made to the Fronde in 1650, Séguier was dismissed from his office of keeper of the seals. He spent part of his retirement at Rosny, with his second daughter Charlotte and her husband,

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